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The Arkansas House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a bill that would amend a 2023 law that allows malpractice claims regarding gender-affirming care provided to minors to be filed up to 15 years after the minor turns 18 years old.—
Josh Snyder,
Arkansas Online,
10 Apr. 2025 -
Not Exactly | Opinion Yes, but anyone advising Xi to not beg Trump for forgiveness is also committing malpractice.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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But there was no hanky-panky, and in fact the two couples had dinner together every week for two years after Dirty Dancing wrapped.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2024
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On my ride with Boaz and Javadi, a Waymo operator suddenly joined us on the audio system, not to inform us that hanky-panky is prohibited, but to say that two passengers did not have their seat belts fastened.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
26 July 2024
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Some will see this as a stain on his reputation, others will shrug their shoulders and say that football has never been an especially moral place, and that worse things are happening out there than accounting indiscretions.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Smith lightened the level of the indiscretion, which goes deeper in Molnar’s version.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
23 Mar. 2025
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Impeachments of judges are rare, occurring 15 times in U.S. history, primarily for corruption or related misdeeds.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
21 Mar. 2025
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At nearly every turn, he’s been able to get away with it, often with the reluctant acquiescence of Western leaders, from George W. Bush to Angela Merkel, who looked away from his misdeeds for the sake of diplomatic comity.—
Bret Stephens,
The Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2025
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The Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station watch commander informed the Times no crime had taken place at the residence.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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Based on the investigation so far, Arlington police believe the attack on Adeyemo-Azeez — by a man released on bond after a previous violent crime — was random.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2025
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There is some familiarity between Iamaleava’s family and UCLA.—
Antonio Morales,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Plus, the Broncos have a ton of familiarity with him.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
11 Apr. 2025
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House Democrats may be looking to take a similar form of recourse after the Trump administration’s Saturday announcement left concerns of impropriety.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
12 Apr. 2025
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The appearance of impropriety on the part of a president whose idiosyncratic personal actions are driving Wall Street lurches is a charge that can be made right now.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Goings-on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goings-on. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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